Civil Litigation

Multnomah County's dispute with the construction firm that renovated part of a Portland bridge will not be heard in court for almost a year following a judge's decision to schedule a trial for September 15, 2014. The Oregon county hopes civil litigation will help it...

Portland International Airport and its manager, the Port of Portland, face a lawsuit after rejecting an anti-logging advertisement deemed to be political in nature. The American Civil Liberties Union backed several Oregon environmental conservation organizations in...

The Oregon School for the Deaf is the target of a lawsuit alleging that a male student sexually abused a younger female student while the two were in the school's care. The woman who filed the claim, the student's mother, contends that school staff, employees with the...

A U.S. District judge in Oregon shot down the government's argument that individuals who have been placed on the no-fly list maintain all their rights and can travel by other means, instead siding with the American Civil Liberties Union and the 13 individuals it...

A recent lawsuit targeting the U.S. Department of Labor claims the government agency wrongfully coerced two Oregon blueberry producers into signing unfair wage settlements, also failing to grant them their right to due process. The farms said they were effectively...

An Oregon man is suing an out-of-state energy firm for over $5 million in damages after he claims he was forced to move out of his home due to constant audible noise and inaudible infrasound produced by a number of wind turbines the defendant installed near his home....

A Marion County Circuit Court judge recently ruled that Oregon's largest labor union has violated a number of state laws concerning the operation of non-profit corporations. This is the latest development in long-running civil litigation between the union and one of...

A woman from Marion County, Oregon, has been awarded $18.6 million in a case that is sure to cause a stir across the nation. The defendant in the case was Equifax Information Services, one of the three major credit bureaus. While the federal jury award will likely be...

A federal lawsuit recently filed in a U.S. District Court in Eugene accuses the maker of a inversion therapy table for contributing to the death of a 64-year-old Oregon man, whose family claims was killed after becoming trapped in one of the devices. The lawsuit...

A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit against an Oregon bus driver and her employer, granting the defendants' motion for summary judgment. The judge dismissed the lawsuit, filed by a group of plaintiffs in response to a 2010 bus crash that left two Portland...